High Court allows Cork teacher injured on cycling holiday abroad to sue UK firm in Ireland

The court heard the woman has claimed she split her chin bone, broke her jaw, fractured her right wrist and sustained other injuries to her arms and chest

The woman claims, due to the failure of the organisers to give proper instruction on safe group riding techniques and/or due to a failure to properly communicate obstructions or hazards on the road, she hit a pothole and was thrown from her bicycle. File photo: Tim Ireland/PA

A Cork woman who was injured in an accident on a cycling holiday in Sri Lanka can sue the UK-based organisers in the Irish courts, the High Court has ruled.

Home economics teacher, Ann Casey (59), from Midleton in Cork split her chin bone, broke her jaw, fractured her right wrist and sustained other injuries to her arms and chest in the accident on December 30, 2018, it is claimed.